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	<title>Screenwriting Goldmine Blog &#187; Selling Yourself</title>
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		<title>Real Opportunities for Screenwriters &#8211; Genuinely Exciting. Please Read.</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/job-opportunities-for-screenwriters/2011/11/01/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a month when the Channel 4 Screenwriting Competition has been absolutely swamped by hopeful writers (500+ scripts were entered yesterday ALONE for only 12 winning places!) it becomes all the more clear that the competition as a writer is murderous, and everyone needs all the opportunities they can find. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m very excited to tell you how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10% Discount on the London Screenwriters Festival</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/london-screenwriters-festival-lsf-discount/2011/10/20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Screenwriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been to this event for the past few years, on and off, and it&#8217;s really quite something. (I think it&#8217;s now the biggest screenwriting event in Europe.) We&#8217;re going to be bringing you some audio interviews from the festival after it&#8217;s done, but it&#8217;s not the same as going, so I spoke to Chris [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriter Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenwriter-jobs/2009/12/03/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quickie this time &#8211; I&#8217;ve added a new section to the website &#8211; a screenwriting jobs section. If you&#8217;re looking for work as a screenwriter, story editor, comedy writer, whatever &#8211; or even work within movie and tv production &#8211; you should definitely take a look. The pages take ads from quite a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The OTHER Skill You Need Apart From Writing</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenwriting-additional-skil/2009/05/01/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenwriting-additional-skil/2009/05/01/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a good screenplay is perhaps less than 50% of the process of making it. Here's another, perhaps equally valuable, skill you need. ]]></description>
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		<title>How To Pitch Your Screenplay &#8211; The Clever Way</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-to-pitch-your-screenplay-the-clever-way/2009/02/24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-to-pitch-your-screenplay-the-clever-way/2009/02/24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pitching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pitching is a comparatively rare opportunity. Here's how to make the most of it. ]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting And Self Belief- How To Keep The Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenwriting-selfbelief/2009/01/30/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenwriting-selfbelief/2009/01/30/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Screenwriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Between The Lines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonekickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cardiac Arrest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cathy Come Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development execs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Garnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing mentality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing psyche]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Screenwriting is a tough, solitary game, and meetings can be very brutal. But there is a rarely stated fact about many development people that may help...  ]]></description>
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		<title>How To Write &amp; Produce Your Own Sit Com &#8211; Six Degrees of Separation # 2</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-to-write-produce-your-own-sit-com-six-degrees-of-separation-2/2008/10/24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-to-write-produce-your-own-sit-com-six-degrees-of-separation-2/2008/10/24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Screenwriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Girls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[produce your own sit com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvia Manning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tv production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[write your own sit com]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Silvia Manning is an American actress who decided that she was going to write her own sit com, and that she was going to get it on screen &#8211; and that NOTHING was going to stop her! You might remember Silvia from the Walker Texas Ranger tv show, or you might have caught her in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Write For  NYPD Blue&#8217;s David Milch &#8211; Six Degrees of Separation #1</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/six-degrees-of-separation-1/2008/10/21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/six-degrees-of-separation-1/2008/10/21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Screenwriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan McDonald]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Milch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deadwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting hired]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever have a dream like this? You get a call from your favourite TV show. You&#8217;re surprised to hear from them &#8211; you only sent your script in that morning. What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s fantastic news &#8211; they like what you&#8217;ve written! No, it&#8217;s better than that. In fact they love what you&#8217;ve written!! [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Screenwriters Get Hired: The Unspoken Truth!</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-screenwriters-get-hired/2008/06/10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-screenwriters-get-hired/2008/06/10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goldmine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Screenwriting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you're chasing an agent you could be wasting your time. Here's the smart way to get work as a screenwriter. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another &#8216;Scripts Wanted&#8217; Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/another-scripts-wanted-opportunity/2008/04/18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/another-scripts-wanted-opportunity/2008/04/18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apoptic productions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feature length comedies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scripts wanted]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s obviously that kind of a day: Apoptotic Productions are looking for comedies: 224 S Main Street Ste. # 103 Springville, UT 84663 info@apoptoticproductions.com From their site: &#8216;At Apoptotic Productions, we are passionate about our art.  We are committed to innovation and the development of new talent. We are currently accepting queries for feature length [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screenplays Wanted &#8211; Hollynorth Project</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenplays-wanted-hollynorth-project/2008/04/18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenplays-wanted-hollynorth-project/2008/04/18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollynorth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pitchfest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, as I seem to be in the market for posting good leads for script submissions at the moment, here&#8217;s another one that might be worth your attention if you&#8217;re in any kind of film studentship at the moment in North America/Canada. Here&#8217;s what the website says is their mission: &#8216;To find gifted screenwriters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Writers Academy</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/bbc-writers-academy/2008/02/06/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/bbc-writers-academy/2008/02/06/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Further to the recent newsletter about the Academy, here&#8217;s a blog post and discussion from December that may be of interest&#8230; Writers Academy It&#8217;s a tough old writing world, for sure&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Script Writing on the Web &#8211; Freedom at Last!</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/script-writing-on-the-web-freedom-at-last/2007/11/13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/script-writing-on-the-web-freedom-at-last/2007/11/13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[other markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quarterlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing for the web]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A comment AMZ made in one of the threads about Quarterlife: http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/the-great-final-draft-giveaway-2/2007/10/24/ reminds me of a discussion we were having and I&#8217;ve been meaning  to write about for a while. It&#8217;s fairly clear to me and a lot of the TV people I know that our future as writers/producers/directors is heavily bound up with the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Screenwriting Competitions Are Evil?</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenwriting-competitions-are-evil/2007/09/22/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/screenwriting-competitions-are-evil/2007/09/22/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting a lot of emails from people telling me about appalling experiences with screenwriting competitions. The process of sending your script off plus an (often high) entry fee to what appears to be a very reputable competition, then hearing nothing, ever &#8211; or even receiving actually abusive coverage &#8211; seems far too common. I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Do I Stop Them Stealing My Ideas?</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-do-i-stop-them-stealing-my-ideas/2007/08/12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-do-i-stop-them-stealing-my-ideas/2007/08/12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have had quite a few people ask how they can stop their scripts, or part of their scripts, being stolen. There&#8217;s quite a few sides to this issue &#8211; not all of them are obvious. A. Until you get an agent I don&#8217;t think you can practically do much more to protect yourself than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Give Good Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-to-give-good-meeting/2007/06/18/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/how-to-give-good-meeting/2007/06/18/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you have been saying words to the effect that: &#8220;it&#8217;s all very well writing the best screenplay in the world, but I&#8217;ll never be able to handle those hard nosed studio types, so what&#8217;s the point of even starting?&#8221; Well, here&#8217;s what you do&#8230; Assume through hook or by crook, or by deal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Opening The Doors</title>
		<link>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/opening-the-doors/2007/06/13/</link>
		<comments>http://www.screenwritinggoldmine.com/blog/opening-the-doors/2007/06/13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Gladwin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Selling Yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a question: &#8220;How do I get Company ABC to read my script when I am only an XYZ?&#8221; Here&#8217;s my answer: &#8220;The problem isn&#8217;t that you&#8217;re &#8220;only&#8221; an XYZ, the problem isn&#8217;t even that they won&#8217;t read your script, because an awful lot of companies actually will read your submission (even though it may [...]]]></description>
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